An Update About Crossposting

[andraste]

A few weeks ago, I posted an entry to livejournal about crossposting, in order to gauge how many people are still reading my entries there. Turns out there are still quite a few of you, so crossposting will continue for now!

However, I should probably not that I'd set my arbitrary threshold at twenty readers ... and I got twenty-two responses in total. Barring a huge change in circumstances, I don't see my crossposting to lj as a permanent thing. My plan is to review annually to check if there are still a significant number of people I'd be inconveniencing if I stopped. Readers exclusively on livejournal would still be able to see my posts by setting up an RSS feed through their friendslist, but I realize that this is an annoying extra step to follow with a journal you might have been reading on lj for a decade.

I reserve the right to review this decision if livejournal does something particularly boneheaded tomorrow.

Comments

[andraste]

To me, that seems to be setting it pretty high. I wonder what percentage of your readers read your journal via LJ and what percentage via DW, and how many regular readers you have in total?

Out of curiosity, I ran a poll on my Dreamwidth account. I got more responses to the poll than to my livejournal post, but clicking a button is easier than posting a comment, so factoring that in I estimate that about fifty percent of my readers are on Dreamwidth.

I set my goal number at twenty because it's a bit under ten percent of the two-hundred-and-eight people who have me friended on livejournal. If less than ten percent of my flist was reading my entries, I wouldn't have a lot of incentive left to keep posting there.

[jhall1]

Thanks. That's very interesting - and to me slightly surprising - data.